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Veknoid_Outcast on 12 February 2017
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Puppyroach said:
teamsilent13 said:

Well it's still a Halo game made by 343, so it's going to be garbage. Splitscreen is the least of issues with Halo right now. If they start siphoning off features they might as well just give up on the xbox brand. The xbox one has been about as useful to me as the original Wii. The 360 on the other hand is among my favorite consoles of all time. I sometimes feel MS is trying to kill of xbox by putting all their games on PC and the absolute failure that is the one. I don't game much anymore because this generation isn't in my tastes, but if I come back I am looking at Sony or just moving to PC entirely. PC sales have been down so maybe they want people to buy new PCs for games. Conspiracy talk, but it really seems like they just don't care about xbox.

Nah, the Halo games made by 343i are better, especially the SP in 4 and MP in 5. They only get crap from old fans that are bitter about the games evolving to be 343i's vision of Halo, not Bungie's. Halo 5 not having split screen was a big issue and they got alot of rightful criticism because of it. But the games as a whole are fantastic and the multiplayer in Halo 5 IMO is by far the best in the series.

No need to call folks bitter. I agree with teamsilent on this. 343 has been a poor shepherd of the series. Halo 4, for me, is the worst game in the series. The multiplayer is a confused and watered-down version of Call of Duty, and the single-player is just as bad. The story is mawkish and embarrassing, the level design is linear and uninspired, the QTEs are intrusive, and the artificial intelligence a step backward from Bungie's excellent work in Reach.

The single-player campaign in 5 is worse, if that's possible. The AI companions are as dumb as a sack of doorknobs, the story alternates between bewildering and silly, and the entire thing runs out of gas in the final act. It's saved somewhat by the return of arena multiplayer and the inclusion of Warzone (343's best and only meaningful contribution to Halo) but it's still a poor game, especially compared to earlier games in the series.

There are reasons people don't like the 343 games, and it's not bitterness or nostalgia. It's because 343 has turned the series into something far less enjoyable and far less enduring.